Abstract: The spot market is the key link of power market construction, and it is of great significance to promote the reform of national power system, break the monopoly of power industry and realize the rational allocation of power resources. Based on the construction experiences of foreign electric power spot market, and combined with the characteristics of Sichuan clean energy and complex power grid structure, starting from such problems as market model, market subject, trade variety, electricity price mechanism, settlement mechanism, large amount of abandoned water, more obstruction sections and the big differences between the abandoned water market and the non-abandoned water market, etc, the construction of Sichuan electric power spot market is analyzed, which can provide the suggestions for building a electric power spot market with Sichuan characteristics.